MinneMUDAC 2025 Resources for Judges and Mentors

Thanks for volunteering to serve as a judge and mentor for MinneMUDAC 2025 on Saturday, April 5th!

Judge’s Orientation Zoom meeting:

Schedule 4/5/25:

8:00 – 9:00: 

  • Registration in 303 for everyone
  • You must have Driver’s license or Government issued ID in order to attend
  • Coffee & Rolls in both Mississippi Annex (for Students) & Campus Club (for Judges & Faculty Advisors)
9:00:
  • Judges & Faculty Advisors to be in Campus Club on 4th floor for overview of judging procedure.
  • Students to be in Mississippi for overview of the day
9:15 – 12:00   Round 1 of Judging, in Campus Club, Mississippi, and Presidents’ Rooms
  • Graduate Division Teams are in Mississippi Room
  • Undergraduate Division Teams are in Campus Club
  • Novice Division Teams are in Presidents Room
  • We’ll have staff & signage to help direct you to your room
12:00 – 1:00   Lunch provided:
 
  • Students in the Theater
  • Faculty Advisors & Judges in Campus Club on 4th floor

1:00 – 3:00     Finalist Presentations in Theater

3:00 – 3:30     Awards ceremony and prizes awarded in Theater

Presentation Info:

  • Each Student Team will present their findings to a 3 or 4 person Judging Team
  • To ensure impartiality, we want the judges to be unaware of which school they’re judging, so we’re asking the students to not have any school branding of clothes, badges, or accessories.
  • Each Judging Team should be comprised of a business professional, STEM professional, and an academic.
  • We will randomly send student teams to a judging team (we’ll reassign if they’re sent to a judging team which their Advisor is on).
  • Each judging session will last about 12 – 15 minutes, during which the students present their findings and permit the judges to ask questions. To ensure every student team gets enough judging sessions in, please adhere to this session timing.
  • After the student team leaves, the Judges should confer and take notes on the presentation, but not enter scores for them until the morning presentations end.
  • The Student teams will then exit and will queue back up for another judging session.
  • Our goal is to have each student team judged 4 to 6 times.
  • Students should bring whatever materials/laptops that they can carry to assist with their presentation.
  • Student teams that have made it into the finals will present in the Theater to everyone at 1:00.
Location and Parking:
 
  • Coffman Memorial Union, 300 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
  • Entering Coffman Memorial Union: Building doors are closed to the public until 9am. Only one door will be open: the northwest ground floor door of Coffman Memorial Union. Signs outside will direct people to the open door. Additionally, staff will be stationed at the north and south entrances to help people enter and find the check-in area.
  • Parking and Bus options can be found here:  MinneMUDAC Parking/Bus/Train options
  • MinneMUDAC will take place across several floors in Coffman Memorial Union (CMU), with check-in on floor 3. We’ll check you in here and direct you to your appropriate room.

Thanks for reading to the end!  We really appreciate your help and couldn’t do it without you!

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